Anniversaries 30 December
Birth
![Christian Heinrich von Dillmann photo]()
German educationist
1829–1899
![Rudyard Kipling photo]()
English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
1865–1936
![Stephen Leacock photo]()
writer and economist
1869–1944
![Ramana Maharshi photo]()
Indian religious leader
1879–1950
![Hideki Tōjō photo]()
former Prime Minister of Japan and Minister of War executed…
1884–1948
![Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi photo]()
Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer a…
1887–1971
![C. D. Broad photo]()
English philosopher
1887–1971
![Victor Serge photo]()
Russian revolutionary and writer
1890–1947
![L. P. Hartley photo]()
British novelist and short story writer
1895–1972
![Sergei Korolev photo]()
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer
1906–1966
![Paul Bowles photo]()
American composer, writer, translator
1910–1999
![Elyne Mitchell photo]()
Australian writer
1913–2002
![Thomas Dubay photo]()
American Catholic priest, author, and retreat director
1921–2010
![Jane Langton photo]()
Novelist, children's writer
1922–2018
![John N. Bahcall photo]()
American physicist
1934–2005
![Sandy Koufax photo]()
American baseball player
1935
![Lloyd Kaufman photo]()
American film director
1945
![Patti Smith photo]()
American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
1946
![Jeff Lynne photo]()
British rock musician
1947
![Bjarne Stroustrup photo]()
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
1950
![Ben Witherington III photo]()
American religion academic
1951
![Peter Coad photo]()
American software entrepreneur
1953
![Yuen Kwok-yung photo]()
Hong Kong microbiologist, physician and surgeon
1956
![Tom Tiffany photo]()
American businessman and politician
1957
![Tracey Ullman photo]()
English-born actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwrite…
1959
![Bernadette Lahai photo]()
Sierra Leonean politician
1960
![Ben Johnson (sprinter) photo]()
Canadian sprinter
1961–1996
![Sean Hannity photo]()
American television host, conservative political commentator
1961
![Douglas Coupland photo]()
Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and grap…
1961
![Mike Pompeo photo]()
70th United States Secretary of State, former Director of C…
1963
![Sumit Chowdhury photo]()
Indian writer and businessman
1969
![Tiger Woods photo]()
American professional golfer
1975
![LeBron James photo]()
American basketball player
1984
![Ellie Goulding photo]()
English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
1986
Death
![Roger Ascham photo]()
English scholar and didactic writer
1515–1568
![Andrew Bonar photo]()
British minister
1810–1892
![David Thomas (born 1813) photo]()
19th-century Welsh preacher
1813–1894
![Epes Sargent photo]()
American editor, poet and playwright
1813–1880
![Josephine Butler photo]()
British feminist
1828–1906
![José Rizal photo]()
Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
1861–1896
![Alfred North Whitehead photo]()
English mathematician and philosopher
1861–1947
![Práxedis Guerrero photo]()
Mexican journalist and anarchist revolutionary
1882–1910
![Vincent Massey photo]()
Governor General of Canada
1887–1967
![El Lissitsky photo]()
Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer…
1890–1941
![Rita Levi-Montalcini photo]()
Italian neurologist
1909–2012
![Luise Rainer photo]()
German-born Austrian and American film actress
1910–2014
![Artie Shaw photo]()
American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
1910–2004
![Leonard B. Meyer photo]()
American composer and philosopher
1918–2007
![Huston Smith photo]()
Religious studies scholar
1919–2016
![Vikram Sarabhai photo]()
(1919-1971), Indian physicist
1919–1971
![John Howard Yoder photo]()
20th century American Mennonite theologian
1927–1997
![Syd Mead photo]()
American concept artist
1933–2019
![Saddam Hussein photo]()
Iraqi politician and President
1937–2006
![Jonathan Z. Smith photo]()
American religion academic
1938–2017
![Abdurrahman Wahid photo]()
4th President of Indonesia, Islamic cleric
1940–2009
![Martin Berkofsky photo]()
American classical pianist
1943–2013
